اللغة الإنجليزية — Exclamations: What and How — 1st Year Middle School — Algerian Curriculum

Exclamations with What and How

Exclamations express strong feelings like surprise, excitement, admiration, or disappointment. In English, we form exclamations with What (for nouns) and How (for adjectives or adverbs).

What + (a/an) + adjective + noun! “What a beautiful day!” “What nice people!” “What an interesting story!“

How + adjective/adverb + subject + verb! “How lovely she is!” “How fast he runs!” “How kind of you!“

Examples

• “What a big house!”
• “What delicious food!”
• “How wonderful!”
• “How quickly time passes!”

Exercises

Exercise: Rewrite as exclamations: 1. The cake is very tasty. → What _______________! 2. She is very smart. → How _______________! 3. It’s a very old city. → What _______________!

Answers

1. What a tasty cake! 2. How smart she is! 3. What an old city!

Related Lessons

Check our other English grammar lessons for more practice: Present Simple, Past Simple, Present Perfect, and Future Tenses. Practice makes perfect!